Sunday, 4 February 2007

My AL440LX Upgrade

A few years ago my cousin handed down to me his old box - Dell Dimension XPS-233 - a Pentium II (233MHz) system.

Using the fantastic resources gathered on Bill's AL440LX Installation Guide, I installed Intel's BIOS. By doing this, it allowed me to use a Celeron 533MHz processor instead of being restricted to a Pentium II 333MHz processor on the Dell BIOS.

A slocket (or slotket) was also needed to install the PPGA form factor Celeron processor on a Slot 1 motherboard.

Here's the configuration of the Dell system I'm using now:

  • Dell AL440LX motherboard
  • Intel Celeron 533 MHz processor
  • MSI Master v2 slotket (MS6905)
  • 256MB PC100 SDRAM
  • MSI Starforce 816 graphics card (GeForce2 MX - 32MB AGP)
  • Yamaha OPL3a sound (onboard)
  • 4.3GB Seagate Medalist hard-drive (two of them)
  • LG 40x CD-ROM
  • Mitsubishi Diamond View DV17NF monitor
  • Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

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